starting to make democrats nervous. the koch brothers plan to help republicans take over the senate. and women for office can change the dynamic and it's a lot more than just about so-called women's issues. plus, lawmakers reading mean tweets people have written about them. >> you are proof that this country has gone to hell in a hand basket. >> yep, you're about as original as an old pair of shoes. >> good morning, i'm chris jansing. right now the president is on his way to north carolina. it's his first trip outside the beltway in 2014. he's trying to put the focus on economy, the manufacturing, and jobs. but back in washington, the deal to help 1.3 million people who are unemployed crumbled. republican senators blocked a bill that would extend

unemployment insurance. the complaint was that for the most part, not about the bill itself, but about senate procedures and amendments. >> i have a number of members who feel the unemployment insurance issue is a serious matter that ought to be addressed, but addressed in a fair and bipartisan way. >> at the end of the day, this debate is not about amendments or complaints over senate procedure. this is about 1.4 million desperate americans, who through no fault of their own, need the help of the federal government. >> i want to bring in our company, perry bacon, political editor of "the grio" and reid wilson. good morning, guys. president obama is going to announce the creation of a new manufacturing institute, which is funded by federal money and private donations. let me play gene sperling, white house adviser, on "the daily rundown." >> we're making a tangible, concrete difference in creating jobs and innovation, even

without an act of congress. i think what you're seeing is a commitment of the president to get things done for real people. >> here's something the president is doing without congress. is that important, considering he doesn't exactly get a lot of cooperation, not a lot is getting done on capitol hill? >> yeah, a lot of presidents face this difficulty in the second term where congress is blocking parts of their agenda, so they start relying more and more on the executive powers that the president has, and i think we're going to see a lot of this from president obama. he has said that he will do everything he can through his pen and his voice to promote his various agenda items. this is a part of it, this public-private partnership he's going to be promoting in north carolina today, and i think we can expect to see that not only on the jobs front, but also on things like gun control, which we've seen him issue executive orders, immigration, basically any other element of his agenda, anything he can do on the executive side, the power of the

executive becomes more important in the second term because of this hostile relationship with congress. >> on the other side of the aisle, gop to use economy as a weapon. they think it's a winning issue for them in 2014. listen to john boehner from yesterday. >> it's at two issues. it's going to be about the issue of jobs. also part of that is the issue of obamacare. obamacare is part of the no jobs problem. why? because we're making it more expensive for employers to add new employees. >> the economy and obamacare, politico paints it another way as the gop's obama obsession and all they want to talk about is his failed policies and obamacare. what is it about this strategy? >> they feel like the rollout of obamacare and then some of the people losing their health insurance plans over the last two months is the issue they want to run on. you listen to mitch mcconnell, he's very focused on repealing the health care law and

attacking it and that's what you're seeing in state after state, ad campaigns about obamacare. that's also why you're seeing less gridlock on other issues. republicans don't want another government shutdown in part because they feel they have a strong hand attacking obamacare the rest of the year and don't want to divert attention to other issues. >> reid, is this what's going on with senator kay hagan, democratic senator from north carolina, she's not going to be going to the events with the president today. her campaign said she's going to be in washington because the senate is in session, but she would be happy to have the president campaign for her, but is that what is going to be the reality in this 2014 campaign season? >> i think it is for a lot of those red state democrats who are seeking re-election. i doubt you're going to see president obama going to louisiana, where landrieu faces a tough re-election fight or arkansas, where mark pryor is in a tough spot, or maybe even alaska. it's nice in the summer, i guess, where the senator is facing a tough fight.

neither side is above reproach here. for the last several election cycles, neither side has run on what they want to do. remember in 2008, the hope and change campaign, president obama, then senator-obama ran more negative ads against john mccain than any other campaign in history. negative campaigning running against the other guy is really the way our modern politics runs these days. >> we're watching the president's motorcade as he is going to be making his way to north carolina. so while this economic debate is going on, perry, you have no deal to extend unemployment benefits. senate republicans tried to make this about unfairness. they say harry reid is a tyrant. is that going to work, or will people remember they didn't get a deal? >> at the end of the day, people will remember they didn't get a deal. the key factor here, there's a real policy debate going on here, which is the republicans want any kind of unemployment insurance to be paid for in their mind. basically, reid wants to get $6

billion more of unemployment benefits the next three months and republicans say they want accompanying cuts, so there's a core policy debate here and the republicans think they can win that debate because the country is so worried about fiscal challenges and the deficit. that's the issue we're really looking at here. >> i think your colleagues at the "washington post" get my headline award. they said today, "congratulations on your budget, congress, americans still hate y you." about the same, 34% for democrats, i can't see an image turn around based on what's going on right now. >> that headline is a special. we've seen several polls that show congress going into the tank. i think one of the big framing questions here is who in the minds of the american people controls congress? is congress defined by the republican majority in the house of representatives, or is it

defined by this bipartisan mess and squabbling in the u.s. senate? i think republicans would want to talk about congress as the senate and the dysfunction there. democrats really want to talk about congress as the republican house running so counter to president obama. so there's a bit of a framing issue here. there's no question both sides agree that when your numbers are in the single digits, it's probably good to run against the institution. >> all right. let's switch gears and talk about chris christie. he apologized yesterday again during his state of the state. >> now the last week has certainly tested this administration. mistakes were clearly made, and as a result, we let down the people we're entrusted to serve. i know our citizens deserve better, much better. i'm the governor, and i'm ultimately responsible for all that happens on my watch, both good and bad. >> so perry, how's he handling

this? >> i think he's handling it. he's being forthright, he's apologized for a long time last week, gave a long press conference. he started off on this speech talking about the scandal. he has to address it. that's a smart strategy. the problem is, it's out of his hands now. you now have reporters all over new jersey, literally so, looking for evidence that his administration sort of punished people that didn't endorse him and that's the problem with christie. it's out of his hands. he's a good politician, good at defending himself and great at speaking, but now we're looking at what did he authorize and what happened in his administration and did the fact he got the democrat votes in 2013 in november, did it mean they liked him or they were threatened and felt like they had to and that's a core question. is he really bipartisan or is he someone who's not really bipartisan. >> we'll talk more about this later in the program. perry bacon, reid wilson, thank

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a bill to extend unemployment benefits has stalled, but it now appears at least something is getting done in congress. today the house will vote on a $1 trillion bipartisan spending bill. among the winners, the pentagon, which will be spared another brutal round of cuts.

wall street also a winner. the bill cuts regulatory funding. head start will get a boost, and even the incandescent light bulb won a kind of reprieve because the bill slashes funding to enforce the phase out of the old-fashioned bulbs. as for losers, there is a pay freeze for the vice president's office. no money for joe biden's pet project, high-speed rail, and the tax man is a loser. money for the irs is more than half a billion dollars lower than what the president requested. i want to bring in congressman tom cole, republican from oklahoma, a member of the budget and appropriations committee. good to see you again, congressman, good morning. >> chris, great to see you. >> we were talking about this in our last segment about congress not exactly having high approval ratings. could americans be saying light ul bulbs, that's what republicans are fighting about? >> if you look at the bill, it's over $1 trillion bill, detailed

line-by-line spending. and it saves a lot of money. it's going to come in literally $164 billion less than discretionary spending in the last year of the bush administration. $27 billion less than last year. but it pluses up some important areas, as you pointed out, head start, violence against women, those are winners. i'm not sure i would agree about the pentagon winning. it's still $35 billion less than overall than it had last year so it's continuing to go through cuts, just wasn't as bad as it could have been. again, it's a bipartisan compromise. we worked together. i expect a majority of both parties to provide the votes for it today. very pleased that the president has urged support for it, as well. it's actually congress doing its job for a change, doing it in a bipartisan fashion. >> well, as you well know, conservatives aren't very happy with it, grover norquist club for growth, for example, put out a statement. "it funds obamacare, pluses up other wasteful programs and

contains dozens of policy writers that can only be scribed as ear marks." what do you say to him? >> look, i have a lot of respect, these are both my friends, but in this case i think they are wrong. first of all, you know, this is less money than we spent last year. it's four years in a row that we have actually cut spending, and president obama will have effectively, you know, when you count inflation in, about 10% less to spend than president bush had in his last year. congress is continuing to try and dress the deficit. did we get everything we want? no, we did not. that's going to be the case until there's a republican united states senate, republican president. and this is far, far better than a government shutdown, far, far better than, frankly, continuing resolution, which gives congress very little control over spending other than the top line and actually continues a lot of wasteful programs that are weeded out in this bipartisan agreement. so, yeah, i think if you actually look at it objectively and across the board, it's a big win for conservatives. it's not a complete win, but we

don't completely control washington, d.c. either, and it's certainly not a complete win for the president or the democrats. it is what people expect us to do in divided government, find common ground and get things done. >> so you have this compromise on spending, but that effort to extend unemployment benefits has stalled in the senate. pennsylvania republican charlie dent plans to introduce a measure in the house to revive jobless benefits. what's your take on this, is it going to get done, and if so, when? >> i haven't had a chance to see charlie's proposal, but he's a gifted legislator and guy i respect a lot. something can be done, but, frankly, the senate democrats have to decide if they are serious about paying for it. look, we're talking about $25 billion over the course of a year if we extended it 90 days, $7 to $8 billion. help us find an offset, i think you can find republican support, but so far, quite frankly, senator reid, democrats wanted a

solution more than a resolution. we're willing to find common ground and reprioritize spending. there's a lot of spending in the federal government that is less important than the issue you're talking about, so let's take from the areas that, frankly, that are less essential and focus on unemployment. if the democrats will be serious about that, i think they'll find willing partners. >> do you think that the budget does sort of bode well for bipartisanship going forward, is it something that had to get done because of the lessons last year with the government shutdown and so on, and let me ask you specifically about what the president is doing today. you know, he's going out to north carolina, he's really putting a push forward on jobs and the economy, and yesterday he said he was ready to take action to boost the economy if congress doesn't. i just want to play that for you. >> identi've got a pen and i'vea phone. i can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and

administrative actions that can move the ball forward. >> is this something he's going to have to do unilaterally, or what are you sensing on the hill? >> well, i think nobody wants to create jobs more than john boehner. frankly, we have 130 pieces of legislation, including things like the keystone pipeline that the president's been varied to to create thousands of jobs. look, if he's serious about working together, again, i think we demonstrated we can in a very big way. that we want to do that. on the other hand, the president has a pen, we have legislative authority, too, and there's a lot of things that could be stopped that he wants. so i think probably starting without threatening the other side would make a good beginning. this is a good first step. i hope we can negotiate a good resolution to the debt ceiling later. i hope we can get a farm bill, which creates jobs in rural america at the end of this month, so let's just take it one step at a time and work with one another in good faith. we did that in the spending bill. we're going to produce a good result and one that both parties

will vote for, so that's the way to get things done. i don't think threats work very well, whether by republicans in terms of shutting down the government or the president in terms of using his executive authority unilaterally. >> congressman tom cole, good to see you, thanks so much. >> thank you. women on both sides of the aisle are some of the toughest contenders in this year's most pivotal races. will 2014 really be a year of the woman? our panelists weigh in coming up. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ told ya you could do it. (dad vo) i want her to be safe. so, i taught her what i could and got her a subaru. (girl) piece of cake. ♪ (announcer) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru.

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his record. joining me, mo, good morning. >> good morning. >> let me read how politico describes the democrats' strategy. the goal of the democratic onslaught is straightforward, not just to harass christie over the scandal, but permanently cripple his reputation, kneecapping him as a 2016 competitor in the process. is that accurate? >> well, look, i mean, chris christie has, you know, tried to cultivate this image for himself over the past four years as this straight shooter. but i think what this incident has done is shine a spotlight on the fact that he is so much worse than that, that he is really america's bully in chief with a long record of intimidation, of retaliation, and of going after those who disagree with him. that's not even to begin touching his poor economic record, so now as he steps on to the national stage as chairman

of the republican governor's association, as someone who's not been at all coy about his presidential ambitions, he's going to start stumping for other candidates, other republican candidates. he's going down to florida to sit with and campaign and raise money for one of the tea party's favorite governors, one of the country's least popular governors, and they've got a record that they both are going to have to answer for. >> so are you kind of seeing this, the fact that debbie wasserman schultz is going to be down there and trailing him as a two-fer, trying to get some traction in the governor's race, as well as anti-christie 2016? >> look, there are governors all over the country, whether it is rick scott in florida or governor corbett in pennsylvania or the governor up in maine or kasich in ohio. republican governors who have been standing shoulder to shoulder with chris christie saying, keep an eye on us, we republican governors, we know how to get it done.

well, we've seen how their chair, chris christie, gets the job done in new jersey, by intimidation and retaliation. and if that's the model that they want to hold up, we're happy to engage on that and to do that in every state where there's a competitive governor's race. >> all right, let's move from governor's races to house and senate. republican groups have spent $20 million on tv ads hitting vulnerable candidates in the house and senate. "the new york times" says democrats are growing increasingly worried about the onslaught of ads. how worried should they be, mo, and is there money for a coun r counteroffensive? >> i'm always worried when the other side starts dumping millions and millions of dollars from shadow groups. >> this is koch brothers money. >> you don't get more shadowy than the koch brothers. if this is how they want to spend their money, again, just

like they did in 2012, attacking democrats on the affordable care act, let them. because at the end of the day, when you compare the democratic plan, which is the affordable care act, a plan that actually is giving better, more affordable health care to more people, and you compare that to the republican plan, which was to shut down the government in order to take those benefits away, i'm happy to have that discussion. and so right now there are more people with health care than there were before, there are more people with affordable health care, more people with protections against being discriminated against for pre-existing conditions. they want to take that away and they went as far as to shut down the government. i'm happy to have that debate. >> mo, good to see you, thank you. >> thank you. if you read only one thing this morning, if you drink coffee or know someone who does, my must read is for you. it's about the search for the perfect cup. you will not believe the lengths some people will go to to become

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photos, which for the time being at least msnbc has decided not to air because of their graphic nature. you see at least one of these purported marines to be pouring flammable liquid, a fuel of some kind, on at least three bodies, and lighting them on fire as another marine stands by. almost as if guarding that position. they are the only two you see in the photos, the two marines apparently, in the photos. and according to the marines who are looking into this, they are not clear exactly who they are, what the time frame is. the bodies were inside a courtyard, but a close examination of the bodies, at least in the photos, it appears that these bodies are already in some stage of decomposition. now according to the geneva convention, in a case where there are health concerns, the geneva convention allows the immediate disposal of bodies,

even by burning if that's necessary, if they, in fact, present some kind of health hazard. what you don't see is actually -- and i would challenge the idea that these marines are posing in the picture. they are going systemically about their business of disposing of these bodies by burning them. at least that's what the pictures appear to show. so the marines are going to try to dig into it, find out exactly what happened, but it's not the kind of joyful, gleeful kind of pictures we saw earlier from the afghanistan war, when some marines were urinating on the corpses of dead fighters, chris. >> thank you for that. checking in the news feed this morning, the headline in the albuquerque newspaper this morning calls it ten seconds of t terror, that 12-year-old boy opening fire in his middle school yesterday. this morning, one of the two students hit at that roswell,

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that raid. with a potential 2016 run hanging in the balance, chris christie is in full crisis management mode. in his first public appearance since his apology last week, christie kicked off his state of the state address talking about the scandal. >> without a doubt, we will cooperate with all appropriate inquiries to ensure that this breach of trust does not happen again. >> now one of the first hands that christie shook when he entered the assembly chamber was democrat john wisniewski, the democrat that's spearheading the investigation. he tells our rachel maddow that a red flag went off for him when christie said he'd cooperate with all appropriate inquiries. >> i certainly hope he considers the assembly committee an appropriate authority, because we do consider ourselves that, it's our job, and we're going to be asking questions, and we'd expect his cooperation. >> i'm joined now by democratic strategist robert zimmerman and republican strategist joe

watkins. good to see both of you this morning. joe, is chris christie giving himself some wiggle room when he said appropriate inquiries? >> well, i think he's doing all the right things. he's, i think, responded in the right manner, he apologized for what happened, he dismissed the employees who did the wrong deeds is, and he's getting on with the business of the people of new jersey, and i think in the long term, he'll be found to be, of course, clear of any issues. and i think that he'll get along with the business of the people of new jersey and i think he'll be fine. >> robert, what kind of grade would you give him so far? >> i think he's said too much and acted really in many ways too ineffectively. yes, his press conference, i think, was the best he could do under that situation and the state of the state speech, talked about mistakes being made, that's the kind of phrase you hear from politicians in crisis, as opposed to taking ownership and taking responsible. >> well, some people have criticized him saying he's never

really apologized for the people directly impacted. >> and, in fact, he really has to do serious soul searching to the type of climate his office created that allowed his senior staff to engage in this kind of behavior, so there are a lot of hurdles for him. >> i worked for a u.s. president and u.s. senate. things happen during the course of a governorship. >> we're not talking about mistakes, we're talking about a strategy that deliberately jeopardized the safety of citizens. for chris christie's credit, he fired many of the people, but he's got a long road ahead of appropriate hearings. >> if you follow the e-mail and texting chain, you see about six people very close to the governor, some of them working directly in his office, who were talking about this, knew it was going on, knew it during the time it was going on, and as we know, in some cases, made jokes about the impact that it was having. so does that speak to the culture, even if he didn't know anything about it, does it imply there was a culture there, does it also imply for somebody who

was a former federal prosecutor, maybe willful ignorance? >> i think it implies the culture is set with the person who says the buck stops with me and chris christie has said that. i take full responsibility for what happened, i don't like what happened, i'm not going to tolerate what happened. i'm going to get to the bottom myself and get to the people who perpetrated this upon the people of new jersey, and then we'll move forward as a state. >> in fairness to chris christie, he is -- he has taken ownership in many respects and, in fact, to his credit, he has removed some of the principle people who are responsible, but the real test is going to be how aggressive he responds to the legislative hearings that take place, how he responds to the inspector general report and how forthcoming his staff is. i think he'll save his governorship, but i think he may not know it yet, but he's not running for president. >> robert zimmerman, joe watkins, to be continued. thank you so much, guys. congress wants answers from target on the massive credit

card breach. brian sullivan is here with what's moving your money. brian, what are they looking for? >> i guess you'd say, chris, target to the bullseye of two democratic senators asking for information about the data breach, names, home addresses, whatever it is. they are basically asking target to come forward and explain exactly what happened. a lot of people have expressed concern about that. of course, privacy is a big issue. this could be one of the biggest data breaches in the history of the world, so the senators going after it. separately but relatedly, jpmorgan chase saying it will replace 2 million credit cards and debit cards. the ceo saying this is a big issue and it's not going away. chris, listen, we talk about computer privacy all the time, i think that at some point we're going to get to a critical mass and figure out other solutions, whether it's biometric fingerprints or chip in a credit card like they do in europe, but, obviously, two democratic senators not happy with target. >> cnbc's brian sullivan, always

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stressed out? you should meditate. johns hopkins researchers recently showed that 30 to 40 minutes of mindful meditation a day can reduce the symptoms of anxiety and depression and help control chronic pain and stress. even though more studies are needed to clarify these results, meditation has no harmful effects. big week for women and working families on the policy front. president obama announcing plans to hold a summit on working families this spring. just yesterday, as well, he met with msnbc special anchor maria shriver to discuss the shriver report, a new study that details the financial struggles of american women. the report also touches on the need for women, 54% of the electorate now, to elect political leaders to fight for their needs at home and in the workplace. with a slew of women running in some of this year's most pivotal races, women could make gains in 2014. joining me now, abby huntsman,

co-host of msnbc's "the cycle." elizabeth plank, vanessa bush, editor in chief of "essence" magazine. good morning. >> good morning. >> the first time we heard year of the woman, it was 1992. gains in the senate and the house, then things kind of flattened out. we are now, the u.s., 79th in the world in women's representation. abby, what's it going to take to get women involved, particularly young women? >> we've got a long way to go still, but i love you keep honing this issue. it's such an important one. if anything washington needs more, it's new ideas and who better than women to bring that to the table? i think it's wonderful. msnbc.com is shadowing a light on this, highlighting this, letting know who's running, which women are running around the country, and especially on both sides of the aisle, i think 2014 is going to be a big year for women, especially on the gop side. i'm actually excited about some women running in the house, looking to hopefully reform the party and shattering the stereotype that it's just the

party of old white men. you, of course, have mia love who's running in utah, jim mattison is retiring, so she's raising money. you have erica herald running in illinois, was former miss america, but folks trying to reform the republican party are getting hit not just from the left, but also from the far right. you have erica herald, who was hit by the rnc of the state basically saying she's the love child of the dnc, who was later fired for that. but women are hit harder. >> let's talk about that, because part of the problem when you talk to people whose job it is to recruit women, one, they feel there's so much intransigence, women feel even if i get elected, what am i going to be able to get done, especially as a new member, they are worried about the things you talk about, getting hit harder. nina turner, the ohio state senator, talked about the challenges in particular facing women, and i want to play that. >> women tend to be harder on women. i can't tell you how many times i've been told don't wear short

sleeves, make sure your hair is just right, make sure you project a certain image. oh, my god, are you going to change your tone and the way you project yourself? >> do women face more scrutiny and is a lot of that scrutiny coming from other women? >> i think that because there have been such a dearth of women in office, you know, the spotlight is shone on them so much more intensely, but as more women come into the, you know, into the playing field, i think some of those attitudes will start to dissipate. these women, obviously, many of them have been servants in, you know, different states, state senate, state congressman for many, many years, so they know how to handle themselves. they have, you know, they have very strong platforms to represent, especially in terms of women, working families, teachers, all the issues that are very important to women in general. and they know how to, you know,

how to move those platforms forward. i don't think that we'll see as much of that as we have in the past. >> one of the good examples of that is wendy davis, who in texas had that filibuster and now has a platform to potentially become governor. new fundraising figures, in fact, show davis raked in more than $12 million from july to december last year. some people are saying it's the filibuster that turned her red state blue. is it that connection women make? of course these issues matter to them, they live them. >> i think a lot of people are excited about wendy davis, i'm one of them. and these figures from her fundraising are encouraging, but she's still running against someone with a lot of money in their pocket already and someone who's been very fierce and has a high approval rate in texas. >> you think the gubernatorial races are going to be the ones to watch this year. >> that's exactly right, because we only have one female

democratic governor, excuse me, in all of the nation, and that's a huge problem, especially when we think about the war on women. this year, the biggest assault on women have been in states led by male governors. those are going to be huge races to look out for. >> chris, i've asked women who have run for office, those running today, what is the biggest challenge for you, is it raising the money? they say it's believing in myself, being convinced i can raise the money, being convinced i can actually win, and if you look at polls, they show women have to be asked five, six x seven times before they take it seriously. that's different than men who are asked. women run because they are passionate about it. they look at washington, that's not a place i want to be, why put myself out there to be attacked just to move to d.c. where it's totally dysfunctional, but then they see the realities, nothing's getting done. maybe there's something i can do and we see when there is a government shutdown, there's

women. women that say let's put the country before politics and get something done. >> abby huntsman, elizabeth plank, vanessa bush, thanks for coming in. you can check our new series, the women of 2014. go to msnbc.com. today's tweet of the day, an article writing "women hedge fund managers outpace men again. go ladies." asional have constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues... with three strains of good bacteria. [ phillips' lady ] live the regular life. phillips'.

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to politics now, where we have to start with the most amazing video of lawmakers reading the mean tweets people send out. >> you really suck a pig's [ bleep ]. >> paul ryan has such pretty blue eyes, sometimes it's easy to forget he's satan incarnate. >> hey, i can't decide whether you're stupid or willfully deceitful. can you help me out? >> when was the last time you

heard voices? it's important to take your medicine regularly. what was that? >> remember shaun duffy was a [ bleep ] bag on real world mtv. he's a [ bleep ] bag now. i guess we're stopping getting played and starting getting real here. >> i saw david vitter in starbuck's this morning, #loser. meantime, the first lady is changing out her workout now that she's turned 50, doing more yoga, doing less weight lifting and running, saying it's flexibility that's important. she also does not rule out plastic surgery or botox as she gets older. her husband, the president, inviting the miami heat to the white house to celebrate their championship. >> sometimes it feels like they are still fighting for a little respect. i can relate to that. and we know chris christie loves the boss, but he probably didn't love being the butt of

jimmy fallon and bruce springsteen's spoof song all about his traffic jam. ♪ you're killing the working man ♪ ♪ who stuck in the governor of chris christie for the new jersey traffic jam ♪ >> which one's fallon, which one's springsteen? can't tell. that wraps up this hour of "jansing and co." i'm chris jansing. richard lui can't tell. >> which was which? gritting the teeth move that springsteen does. hey, chris. >> don't quit your day job. >> thank you so much, chris. you got that right. the agenda next hour for a chris christie wanting to change the subject, but new jersey has anything but moved on from this. more subpoenas are coming. we'll give you a look at what's ahead. a land mark ruling in deep blue oklahoma, as well, in favor of same-sex marriage there, but weddings cannot happen, not yet.

we'll tell you why and talk to one of the couples who sued to bring this on. and another one bites the dust. this morning, another democratic congressman here is calling it quits and why are so many dems leaving the house and what does it mean for the party? all that straight ahead ff you. . [ whistle blowing ] where do you hear that beat? campbell's healthy request soup lets you hear it in your heart. [ basketball bouncing ] heart healthy. [ m'm... ] great taste. [ tapping ] sounds good. campbell's healthy request. m'm! m'm! good.® we're gonna be late. ♪ ♪ ♪ oh are we early? [ male announcer ] commute your way with the bold, all-new nissan rogue. ♪

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and a very good day to you. we have a lot happening here on msnbc. first off, i'm richard lui, we begin this hour, a long awaited senate report on the deadly benghazi attacks has just been released. it said the u.s. could have prevented the attacks, the report spreading blame among the state department and intelligence agencies. saying false intel agencies for not telling the military that the cia outpost even existed. the 2014 attack killed four americans, including ambassador

chris stevens. aman in studio with us live here in new york, so, aman, an 80-plus report coming from the senate. what is new that we haven't seen before in it? >> well, perhaps the single most important thing we're hearing from this bipartisan report is there was no singular piece of intelligence to suggest an attack was imminent. there was lots of intelligence reports there was an increased deterioration of security conditions in the western part of libya, in benghazi, but there was nothing to say this was a premeditated and planned attack and it had hallmarks of an opportunistic event. as you mentioned, lots of miscommunication between the various government agencies, state department, the department of defense, the intelligence community, and perhaps one of the more important elements that the u.s. military did not have any assets nearby that it could deploy to help save american lives. >>